Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Waterfront delights

London’s Docklands are one example, Hamburg’s Hafencity, another: Large cities redevelop unused harbor areas, turn them into new districts and try to fill these with life. The planners of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town have done an excellent job of harmonizing old and new, for instance at the exquisite Cape Grace Hotel with its Signal Restaurant where guests are treated to traditional Cape Malay dishes.

Palace of the windows

The Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, India, was built in 1799 for the sole purpose of allowing the ladies of the royal household to watch processions unobserved. Hence the 953 intricately screened windows in its facade.

Build your own kayak, row- or sailboat in only a week at the Great Lakes Boat Building School in the U.S. state of Michigan. Then set sail straight into the water sports arenas that are the Great Lakes on the doorstep.

It takes two…

The best place to see and learn to dance the tango is Buenos Aires, where the sensual dance was born and where the annual International Tango Festival and world championships take place (August 9 – 22).